“Not everything that counts can be counted. Not everything that can be counted, counts.” (Alison Wolf, British academic and assessment expert)
All assessment should:
• evaluate what students can achieve
• motivate and set targets
• provide information for future use
• assess the abilities/skills we want to assess and not something else
• have a positive impact on learning
• provide meaningful results
• have a clear purpose
• have expectations that are fully understood by the learner
• provide opportunity to demonstrate the learners depth of knowledge
“Not everything that counts can be counted. Not everything that can be counted, counts.” (Alison Wolf, British academic and assessment expert)
All assessment should:
• evaluate what students can achieve
• motivate and set targets
• provide information for future use
• assess the abilities/skills we want to assess and not something else
• have a positive impact on learning
• provide meaningful results
• have a clear purpose
• have expectations that are fully understood by the learner
• provide opportunity to demonstrate the learners depth of knowledge
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